Three Iraqis were killed in al-Musil, an assistant for al-Zirqawi killed in Baghdad
Three Iraqis working for the American occupation forces were killed when attackers opened fire at their car on Monday evening in Musil to the north of Iraq.
A spokesman for the Iraqi police said that the three Iraqis, two translators and one technicians, were killed as they were heading to their work in the American military base at al-Musil airport, adding that two other Iraqis were in the same car were strongly wounded.
In Musil also, a source at the Kurdistani Democratic Party led by Masoud al-Barazi said that unidentified persons attacked on Monday evening one of the party's offices in the city but no human casualties were reported.
An officials in the police said that unidentified persons last Sunday killed two members of the Kurdistani Democratic Party in Musil and threw their bodied in one of the wrecked areas in al-Baath quarters in the downtown of the city.
Meantime, a group calling itself "al-Sunna partisans" made a statement at the Internet claiming responsibility for the suicide attack which took place on Monday in Karkouk and resulted in killing 13 persons and scores of wounded.
On the other hand, the Iraqi daily Baghdad which is run by member of the governing council Eyad Allawi said that the occupation forces killed last Thursday in a site to the north of Baghdad one of the assistant of the official in al-Qaida organization, Musaab al-Zarqawi, and arrested several members of al-Qaida.
The paper said quoting well-informed Iraqi sources that al-Zarqawi's assistant who was killed is the Jordanian Nidal Oreibat Agha Hamzeh, and is blamed for several attacks which resulted in killing some 270 Iraqis during the two past months.
The spokesman for the American forces in Iraq, Gen. Mark Kemet, announced on February 12 a reward if 10 million for the one who gives information leading to arresting al-Zarqawi.
The spokesman for the occupation forces, Dan Senior, said the same day that chasing al-Zarqawi will be more intensive than the operations which were made to arrest the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his two sons Ode and Qusai in 2003.